Sitemap - 2024 - Fintech Blueprint 🤖🏦🧭
Long Take: Is Goldman or Walmart the best place to build a neobank?
Fintech: Mercury Expands Orbit with Launch of Personal Banking
Podcast: How Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek
Long Take: Synapse Bankruptcy vs. Stripe Expansion & $10B at risk in Ethereum LRT derivatives
AI: The Big Tech war — comparing OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Mistral LLMs
Podcast: Betterment's path to $45B and beyond, with CEO Sarah Levy
Long Take: Lessons from Petal's sale to Empower, after nearly $1B in capital raised
DeFi: $225MM raise for Monad, Ethereum competitor with parallel execution
Long Take: Can the SEC take down Uniswap, and all of DeFi with it?
Podcast: Powering $2.5T of Private Equity, with Carta Head of Policy Anthony Cimino
Long Take: Is Banking as a Service dead?
Fintech: How can Robinhood afford 3% cash back on its new credit card?
Long Take: Launching our AI indexes, and reflecting on the Web3 AI mega-merger
New Schedule, Lower Price for Fintech Blueprint
AI: BNY Mellon deploys AI super-computer from NVIDIA
Long Take: Stripe's $1 Trillion volume, and the promise of Internet GDP
DeFi: Ethereum L2 fees fall 90%+ as Dencun upgrade hits Optimism, Base & Zora
Podcast: The promise behind investing in private credit, with Percent CEO Nelson Chu
DeFi: $BODEN and $TREMP, the Memecoins we deserve for financializing attention
Long Take: 2024 market sentiment for banks and blockchains & Ethena's 50% yields
Fintech: New York Community Bancorp halts trading, raises $1B capital injection
Podcast: Saving DeFi from financial hacks, with Quantstamp CEO Richard Ma
DeFi: Blast’s gamified financial engineering gets $2.6B TVL
Financial Analysis: Dissecting Monzo’s new $5B valuation and 9MM UK customers
Fintech: Klarna's potential $20 billion IPO, improved earnings, and continued adoption of AI.
DeFi: EigenLayer's TVL skyrockets to $9B - what are the rehypothecation risks?
Analysis: Discovering the Bitcoin Miner opportunity, as BTC passes $60,000
AI: Who is responsible if your AI hallucinates financial mistakes? Court rules against bot.
Fintech: Temenos drops $2.4B in market value after short-seller finds accounting problems
DeFi: $400MM+ for Ethena's synthetic dollar with 27% yield
Long Take: Can the $35B mega-merger of Capital One and Discover succeed?
Fintech: Onfido to sell for $650MM to Entrust, an identity tech rollup
Long Take: JPMorgan's bank branch expansion mirrors Apple's retail magic
Artificial Intelligence: The Rise of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Deepfake Cybercrime
Fintech: Moody's downgrades New York Community Bancorp to junk status
Podcast: From structured products to decentralized perpetuals, with SynFutures CEO Rachel Lin
DeFi: Jupiter airdrops $700MM to Solana users, top 10 largest of all time
Long Take: How can Farcaster avoid the death trap of decentralized social media?
Artificial Intelligence: Mastercard’s new Neural Network for enhanced fraud detection
Fintech: Joe Duran's Rise Growth Partners secures $250MM for minority RIA investments
DeFi: Portal Network raises $34MM for a SWIFT-like network of decentralized exhange
Long Take: How the Machine Economy combining AI, blockchain, and Fintech is growing
Artificial Intelligence: Using AI to discover insights from earnings calls
Fintech: Brex, MSFT, and Fintechs cutting headcount, but unemployment stays low
DeFi: Frax Finance rolls out on-chain bonds. Will it impact USDT and USDC?
Financial Analysis: Will $5B Trade Republic, Germany’s Robinhood, win the race for European wealth?
Artificial Intelligence: European Union AI Act and its implications for finance
Fintech: JPMorgan's $300MM gamble on the future of quantum computing in finance
Long Take: Will BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise or GBTC win the Bitcoin ETF launch?
Artificial Intelligence: Broadridge deploys OpsGPT to improve trade lifecycle support
Fintech: $125MM for Vestwell's workplace savings and retirement tech
DeFi: Ethereum's 'Dencun' Upgrade Targets Over 90% Reduction in Rollup Transaction Costs
Long Take: Carta's misstep and exit from secondary markets point to a bigger problem
Artificial Intelligence: The importance of temporal validity for financial AI
Fintech: HSBC Zings into payments competition with Revolut and Wise